Irresistable!!!!

Little Miss "E" turned one this past week and so we just had to do a special session starring her with a birthday cake!  She is just too cute and I couldn't decide which photos to post, so here are most of them!    I'm sure her mom and dad can't resist that little face, because I know, I can't!  Happy Birthday, Miss "E"!  Your Aunty Shaunna Loves you!!!

I had some fun playing around with some pre-sets in lightroom!  So you'll notice some big differences in color and texture!  It's fun to have such a great subject to "play" with!!

At first she was acting all dainty just using her finger and thumb and kind of pinching the frosting off and sticking it in her mouth.

But finally after a bit of coaxing from her mommy, she "got into" it a bit more!

I love how she looks so tickled with herself!

Fall Special:

Of Pumpkins, Bee Stings and Naked Babies

This cute little guy is the son of one of my young women that was in my church youth group a few years back!  He is so darling and had so much fun.  About half-way through the shoot, a bee got caught in my hair and started stinging me on my neck! OUCH!  We looked up and bees were swarming from the neighbor's yard (he has hives, which I love because my garden and flowers love, too!  Plus I just bought some really yummy honey from their 9 year old son who is putting the money in his mission fund!)  I just love his sweet little face and eyes!

Cute Little Ladies

The interesting thing about this shoot was the older one of the two, "G", was the harder one to shoot!  It ended up being torturous and tearful!  She just wasn't in the mood to spend much time taking pictures.  Her mom did say that she fell asleep in the car on the way home.  Little Miss "E", however was pretty happy since she had napped and eaten before and did pretty well.  She will be one in a few weeks and so we decided to break up this shoot into a few segments.  So I wanted to post some of these that turned out so cute!

Just Trying to "Rock The Shot"

So I was perusing some of my favorite photography blogs and noticed a contest for September on one of my favorite blogs, www.rocktheshotforum.com.  The theme of the contest is backlighting and there are some really great shots that have been submitted with some really nice examples.  So I decided to submit one that is in my last post of Karen since I caught some great backlighting.  I love the rim light it giving around her hair and the golden light in the flowers.  This is the first time I've EVER submitted anything....so here goes!

Karen's "post" Senior Pictures

So this little lady actually graduated this past June, but decided to hold off to be photographed until her braces came off.  I think it was worth the wait!  Nice Grill, Karen!  She's off to BYU Idaho on a Music scholarship!  And apparently is an amazing flute player!  Good luck Karen!

The Weight Family

What a gorgeous family!  This is my friend from High School from twenty-something years ago.  She asked if I would take a family portrait before her number three son left on his mission to Argentina. 

 Cute kids!  I loved shooting them!
 Isn't this so cute?  Her cute missionary giving her a big smootch!  I'm very sensitive to boys with their moms, and I just loved this!

It's fun to be with a cute family that interacts so well with each other, not to mention being with such a long-time friend.  Thanks Weight family!!